While the idea of using a PSP to web surf isn't new, in this article Seth Fogie presents an alternate way for you to get online with your PSP. By using a local proxy program and DNS spoofing, the PSP can be tricked into going to a 'home' page of your choosing, from which you can then control the browser.

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The PlayStation Portable is the latest handheld gaming device to hit the
market. However, simply calling this a gaming system does not give the PSP the
credit it deserves. Inside you will find a gaming system, movie player, music
player, and image viewer. All this is enhanced by a very sharp LCD display that
puts the PSP in a league of its own when compared to other handheld systems.
With all these options, who would want more? Well, if you really have to ask
that question, welcome to the mind of the hacker!

Since the PSP hit the US market, it has become the target for those brave
enough or curious enough to peek under the cover and find out what this device
can do. People have figured out how to download and view ripped movies, ebooks,
PDFs, and even Tivo files. Others have found ways to peek inside the ROM update
files and we even
took one of the devices apart
for the fun of it! However, there was one discovery that has really impacted how
the PSP can be used to it's fully extent: the web browser hack. While the
idea is not new (unless you count less than a week new), this article presents
yet another way for you to get your PSP online and surfing web pages. Using a
local proxy program and DNS spoofing, we can trick the PSP into going to a
'home' page of our choosing, from which we can then control the
browser.

In addition to this, we also figured out how to create an on-screen keyboard
that makes data entry very easy while surfing around online. If you have used
the PSP, then you know how much of pain it can be to type anything into the
screen because it uses the standard cell phone type of entry where each button
can be three letters (uppercase and lowercase) or a number.

The following will provide you with a step-by-step walkthrough on how to get
your own PSP browser up and running without relying on a volunteer server from
the Internet. While this is not the perfect solution for every situation, it
does give you a look at how the browser can be tricked into accessing your own
content online.

NOTE

This is just one of many ways to turn Wipeout into your own browser.
There are other programs out there that can help you do this, but in my
experience, the program Charles offers everything needed in one package.

The Background

This whole browser experience is possible because someone (not sure who
really) figured out that Wipeout Pure contained a 'Download'
option that connected the PSP to the ingame.scea.com site. Ironically, the
downloaded webpage was nothing more than filler that told the viewer a site was
'Coming soon'. One clever guy put two and two together and figured out
that if their PSP was able to download a webpage from
ingame.scea.com/wipeout/index.html, then perhaps the PSP could be forced to
download a page from another site.

With this idea in mind, one particular person (Roto) was able to setup a
rather complex workaround that essentially tricked the PSP into believing it was
connected to scea.com, but instead was actually connected to the site the user
had hard coded into their DNS server. We will explain how this process works,
but for now just know that Roto basically performed a DNS spoofing attack on the
PSP. Regardless of how this was accomplished, we want to acknowledge the work
that
http://www.fumanchuu.com/pspdev/
(and others) did to get this working and spread the word. Our goal here is not
to reproduce what was already done, but to simply the process so anyone with a
PC, Wipeout Pure, and a network connection can surf the internet from
their own PSP.